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Autumn Meeting) in England. Nor was even this all; 

 for, measured through Hervine and Jouvence, there were 

 in France three other French-bred animals foaled in 

 the same year as Jouvence — namely, M. Alexandre 

 Aumont's FitzGladiator and Eoyal-quand-meme (win- 

 ners of many races in France and Belgium), and Count 

 de Hedouville's Moustique (winner of the Poule d'Essai, 

 or French Two Thousand, in 1853) — worthy of com- 

 peting (at any rate with an allowance of weight) with 

 English horses on Ensflish ground. 



In 1854 the chief French 'cracks' were Hervine 

 (six years old), Trust (five j^ears old), Aguila (five 

 years old), Eoyal-quand-meme (four years old), Jou- 

 vence (four years old), FitzGladiator (four years old), 

 Moustique (four years old), Papillon (four years old), 

 Echelle (dam of Orphelin, four years old), Honesty and 

 Celebrity (both three years old, both by Gladiator), 

 Nancy (three years old, by Mr. Wags), Lycisca (three 

 years old, by Sting), Valeria (three years old, by Sting), 

 and perhaps there may be added a two-year-old, 

 Eemus (by Garry Owen\ belonging to M. Adolphe 

 Fould. Of these representatives Hervine was to have 

 run for the Cambridgeshire, but fell lame, with her 

 usual ill luck (for she was then in great form) ; Fitz- 

 Gladiator was to have run for the Goodwood Cup, but 

 could not stand the preparation ; Valeria ran hopelessly 

 behind Virago for the Goodwood Cup (for which there 

 were only three runners) and behind Winkfield for the 

 Brighton Stakes ; Aguila ran hopelessly for the Great 

 Ebor Handicap and the Great Yorkshire Handicap ; 

 Jouvence had no fewer than six vain trials on various 

 English courses ; Lycisca, the shifty, ran to no purpose 

 in the City and Suburban (won by the invincible 

 Virago) ; and the bright hopes of the French had surely 



